Vice President Walter Mondale, who also served as the state’s attorney general from 1960 to 1964, joined him at a campaign event in Minneapolis Friday.

Walter Mondale and Keith Ellison (credit: CBS)

“The Minnesota attorney general’s office is a public interest law firm that should represent the best interest of everybody in this state. And that means making sure people are treated fairly,” Mondale said. “Fairly in this economy, fairly in this society.”